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...theater, those in line outside and those looking at the listings, wondering what they should see. In the past two years alone there has been a 41% increase in box-office receipts, and this year's receipts will total more than $600 million. Even President François Mitterrand, according to his Culture Minister, Jack Lang, manages to see at least two films a week...
...Soviet offer "may be a step in the right direction." The West German Cabinet refrained from public comment on the matter, but officials in Bonn privately expressed disappointment at the U.S. Administration's outright rejection of what was seen as a Soviet trial balloon. Although French President Mitterrand went out of his way to tell Shultz that he firmly backed the U.S. negotiating stance, he has said that he thought the outcome could be somewhere between the opening U.S. and Soviet positions. Conceded a U.S. policymaker: "It is the long-anticipated next move in the Soviet peace offensive...
...support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President François Mitterrand that even if the Soviets made a proposal along the lines now hinted at, it would not be "a very interesting proposition." During an impromptu news conference, President Reagan noted that the ideas floated by the Soviets were not "adequate" and would "leave us at a considerable disadvantage...
Relations between Paris and Washington have been particularly chilly ever since Mitterrand refused to make concessions that would have enabled Reagan to save face while ending the U.S. sanctions against European companies participating in the construction of a Soviet gas pipeline to Western Europe. Last week Shultz and French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson gave every appearance of having patched up that squabble. It was announced that several study groups would be set up to explore ways of coordinating trade relations with the Soviet Union, but France still refused to commit itself to a new accord on East-West trade...
...Socialists, reducing military spending represents a sharp turnabout. When Mitterrand was swept into power last year, he delighted France's NATO allies, and mollified suspicious right-wing opponents at home, by making it clear that he would strengthen the nation's defense effort. At a time when most of the allies were cutting back, Mitterrand proposed a hefty 17.6% increase in defense spending for 1982, or nearly 4% after inflation. Since then, the gray realities of recession have taken their toll. Defense Minister Charles Hernu, relying on a government decree, hacked a total of $2.5 billion from...